Server is always local

[soaringcheetah]

Whenever I click "create" then click "start muliplayer," it's always a local game and my friend can't find it. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong

[Mirio]

sv_public 1 ?
I'm not sure, i don't know much about servers

I guess your friend would get a very high ping anyway..

But you can play at a private 1on1 server

ladder.tchr.no:26000
ladder.tchr.no:2600
ladder.tchr.no:26002
planetnexuiz.de:26500
planetnexuiz.de:26501
delight.vapor.com:26500
delight.vapor.com:26501

you have to type in the console this for example:

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connect delight.vapor.com:26501

and press enter.

[soaringcheetah]

sv_public 1 ?

Looks like I jumped the gun, it looked like it was going to work, but it didn't.

[Mr. Bougo]

Keep in mind that the performance on servers run by that "create" option is quite low. The ideal solution is using the dedicated server binary.

Running a listen server on your client generates lag when your fps is low on the client, which is kinda lame :p

[soaringcheetah]

The ideal solution is using the dedicated server binary.

The problem is, I don't know how. Here are the steps I took:

1. I edited server.cfg by changing some values and deleting the "//" before the ones I changed.
2. I copied server.cfg into the data folder.
3. Then I doubleclicked server_mac.sh, because I have a mac, and it didn't work.

I'm probably doing something wrong here, but I don't know where.

[Mr. Bougo]

Try running it from the console, to see if it throws some errors (I don't know how to do that on macs, though)

[soaringcheetah]

Try running it from the console

How do you do it on Windows?

[divVerent]

Weren't you just on Mac OS X?

On Windows, read the instructions in the server/ directory. There is a .bat file there for you.

[Mr. Bougo]

div, but if the server exits immediately, the console disappears

In windows, just open the bat file, add a new line at the end:

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pause

For linux/mac I guess the simplest way would be

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exec /bin/sh

(anyone knows a POSIX way to wait for input? :p)
(is "read" POSIX?)

EDIT: so yeah, "read" is POSIX, so for linux/mac add these lines at the end of the .sh file launching the server:

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echo "Press enter to continue..."
read foo